5 Rhythms®

5 Rhythms® is a movement practice created by Gabrielle Roth.

It is designed to cater for the times we live in today. It incorporates freedom of movement, personal development, a balancing of our female and male energies, creativity and expression. Tools are used to release pent up or held in emotions and the possibility of letting go of old patterns of behavior that have little or no value in our lives today.

Flow. Staccato. Chaos. Lyrical. Stillness.

Flowing: Earth. Deeply grounded, rooted, feminine, receptive, internal, the dance with myself.

Staccato: Fire. Expressive, relating, masculine, extensive, percussive, the dance with those around me.

Chaos: Water. The dance of letting go, shedding skins of time and illusion. Releasing old stories.

Lyrical: Air. Letting go of letting go. Trance, freedom, steping into who I really am. Acceptance.

Stillness: Love. Gratitude, contemplation, meditation, prayer,.

‘Dancing is not rising to your feet painlessly like a whirl of dust blown about by the wind. Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces and giving up your soul.’
Rumi

Do you want to feel gorgeous, alive, full of energy and vitality? Do you want to understand how to turn pressure and stress into intention and action? Do you want to become more of who you really are?
Do you know what it is to dance fully, to stretch beyond how you really see yourself, to feel your whole body tingling, right to your finger tips? Or is your dancing path limited to tapping your feet in time to the radio?
There is a wild dancer inside everyone, no matter your age or ability, male or female. A dancer that is longing to break free of its daily routines, its predictabilities, its inhibitions. A dancer that loves music, rhythm, and a drum beat.
Is your heart and spirit saying 'Yes'?
Then the 5Rhythms® dance floor is where you could begin ..... And please do not hesitate to contact if you need more information.

About Gabrielle:
Gabrielle Roth is a dancer, musician, theatre director, author, and the originator of the 5Rhythms® Movement Meditation practice. She is an urban shaman currently living in New York. Through all of her work she invites participants to ground into their true self by giving space to the creative spirit, and tapping into their own shamanic archetype through dance, song, poetry, acting and healing.
Gabrielle has been making trance dance & tribal ambient music to support the 5Rhythms® Movement Meditation practice with the Mirrors since the early 1980s. The drumming provided by Sanga of the Valley, and Gabrielle's husband Robert Ansell is instrumental to the success of the recordings. The music is produced through Raven Recording in New York.
She has authored three books: Connections (2004; Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin; NY, NY); Sweat Your Prayers (1997; Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin; NY, NY) and Maps to Ecstasy (1989; Nataraj Publishing; Novato, CA).
An artistic director of 5Rhythms Ritual Theater she has directed experimental and traditional acting in New York City for the past 20 years. She taught with Joseph Chaiken at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts: Experimental Theatre Wing (ETW). Most recently she directed productions of SAVAGE LOVE, by Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin, at The Culture Project (Manhattan), One Arm Red (Brooklyn) and regionally at the Hip Pocket Theater (Fort Worth, TX). She has also been a member
of the Playwright and Directors Unit of the Actor’s Studio.

For Gabrielles website visit www.gabrielleroth.com